• YAMAOTOKO 4 ( L'HOMME DES MONTAGNES 4 )

Signed proof bearing the dry stamp of the : Yoseide Gallery
Ca.1956
Showa 31
Sosaku-hanga
Nishiki-e

Azechi, born to a poor farming family in what is now Uwajima, Ehime, first enrolled in a correspondence art course. In 1920 he had the opportunity to settle in Tokyo but returned home to Shikoku after the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. He returned to Tokyo in 1925, where he worked for a printing company.
Azechi's prints were noticed by Unichi Hiratsuka, who took him under his wing. The latter belonging to the Japan Print Association and the Kokugakai Arts Association presented some of his works in their exhibitions. Azechi then quit his job and became a freelance artist. At the same time he met Maegawa Sempan and Kōshirō Onchi who influenced his art.
His early works reflected the monochromatic sosaku hanga style. He began to develop his own style in the late 1930s when he specialized in mountain landscapes and their natives. This passion for the mountains led him to become an experienced mountaineer. His deliberately primitive style was intended to be close to naive artists, simplifying the patterns and using mainly cold colors such as blues, greens and purples.
It was from the 1940s that he met with success and participated in the three print biennials in Sao Paulo, Lugano and Tokyo.

The Umetaro Azechi Memorial Museum opened in Uwajima in 2003 and today his prints are present in major museum collections such as the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts or the British Museum in London.



YAMAOTOKO 4 ( L'HOMME DES MONTAGNES 4 )

  • Author : AZECHI UMETARO ( 1902-1999 )
  • Technic: Xylographie

  • Width : 252.00
  • Height : 385.00
  • Leaf width : 295.00
  • Leaf height : 435.00

  • Availability: In Stock
  • 900.00 €



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